Anna Wilhelmina Hanson was born on 12 March 1874, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States. She married Frank W. Ferrin on 16 March 1899, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 26 October 1918, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Hann or Hand + son; see Hand 5.
Irish: variant of Hampson .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Hansson .
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